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Welcome to these Fearful Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
I am Cautious, But NOT Fearful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary.
Choosing a school, choosing a career,
getting married, having kids -
all those things are scary.
If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
- Paul Tornier
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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